Your new company

Hays are delighted to represent a nationwide manufacturing company, currently recruiting a Senior Legal Counsel to join their evolving legal team in Craigavon.
As a senior member of the Company’s Group legal team, you will be the primary point of contact for day-to-day legal advice to the Executive and Senior Leadership Team. You will provide efficient, commercially focused legal advice for the business and its subsidiaries.

Your new role

You will work on a range of high-value and complex commercial agreements, procurement frameworks and contracts, dispute management, property, competition law, regulatory matters and mergers and acquisitions work.
You will report to the European General Counsel and work closely with colleagues in the UK Group legal team to maximise synergies across the UK group and support the development of standardised processes and contracts where appropriate.
You will also work closely with the Head of Compliance and Group Data Privacy Officer.
Duties include:
• Reviewing, drafting and negotiating a wide range of commercial agreements with both customers and suppliers.
• Assisting, and providing legal guidance to the business teams in carrying out all legal, regulatory and contractual aspects of their responsibilities.
• Providing legal advice to support optimal outcome of litigation/regulatory disputes, including sourcing external advice where appropriate.
• Advising on compliance in relation to marketing, advertising and brand licence terms.
• Evaluating and weighing multiple inputs/impacts of decisions/courses of action and identifying proactive solutions to mitigate risks.
• Managing and interfacing with outside legal counsel where appropriate, including contributing to the management of a legal budget.
• Working with internal business partners on proactive legal training.

What you'll need to succeed

To be a successful candidate for this role, you will be a NI or E&W qualified Solicitor with ideally 8 years post qualified experience (lower PQE level will be considered for exceptional candidates). You will also have:
• High calibre experience including working in a fast-paced, in-house legal team.
• Highly experienced corporate lawyer with the ability to manage a wide range of legal issues and accustomed to finding commercial solutions to legal problems.
• Experience in drafting and negotiating complex commercial & procurement contracts, with exposure to intellectual property, GDPR, antitrust, anti-bribery and other regulatory issues.
• Experience in developing and delivering internal training.

What you'll get in return

This role comes with a great salary, fantastic benefits and flexible working options.

What you need to do now

If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now. If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion on your career.